Obamacare Unconstitutional and Void

The full text of the decision, all 78 pages, is here.

I have not yet read and absorbed it. After I do, I may post more comments, after I have finished celebrating.

This is a temporary celebration, of course. The Supreme Court will eventually decide this.

Saving Social Security

Obamanomics in Practice

Obama: "I want my hand in your pocket" -- And not in a good way.

From the president's speech last night.

The bipartisan Fiscal Commission I created last year made this crystal clear. I don’t agree with all their proposals, but they made important progress. And their conclusion is that the only way to tackle our deficit is to cut excessive spending wherever we find it – in domestic spending, defense spending, health care spending, and spending through tax breaks and loopholes.

Wow. "Tax breaks and loopholes" is government spending to him?

The President (and you don't know how much it pains me to call him that) thinks all the money in your pocket is government money he simply hasn't yet gotten his hands on.

From the sages of the sixties:



h/t Patterico

How Liberal Journalists Explained

Stop Government Abuse

I will never understand the we-need-more-government crowd. They seem to be under the constant delusion that somehow, the government will be kinder and gentler and always benevolent as it gets bigger and bigger.

It defies logic. The more government, the more government abuse.

For another tale of government abuse explaining the photo, click here.

Bankruptcy for California?

Private business sometimes go bankrupt. That can result from many things. Losing your biggest (or only) customer, for example. A business cannot force customers to come through its doors and lay down money for its products or services.

To run a state into bankruptcy takes real (negative) talent. And public employee unions. And maybe a clueless (i.e., largely "progressive") electorate. Like California.

Think about it. Bad economy, you still have to pay taxes. The government can and does force its "customers" through the door and forces them to pay. The government can cut programs. It can lay people off. It will always continue to have some income. It merely needs to cut the cost of services to the level that the state can afford on its income.

Yes, cuts get pretty unpopular with those who receive the benefits. Running a state government requires fortitude, fortitude that squishy liberals don't have. They don't want to cut the benefits of X, because they have made X so dependent on the government benefits that X might suffer. How many X's will suffer if the government goes down the tubes completely?

The Federal government is now considering allowing states to go into bankruptcy. What king of terrible governing -- governor and the legislature -- would allow that to happen. It is not like California has been unaware of its downward fiscal trend.

Man up, California. You have a problem. Go solve it as if you were run by responsible adults, rather than "gimme, gimme" children. Real adults learn how to say no to children.